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A long-established Syrian food brand founded in 1980 (Sarhan Bros.), specialising in natural food industries with authentic taste and practical quality. It produces tomato paste and ketchup, pomegranate and pepper molasses, natural vinegar, jams, rose and blossom water, sauces, pickles, grape leaves, canned foods and apricot leather. Its products are made from selected fresh ingredients with no unnecessary additives and are exported to more than 12 markets worldwide.

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Jordan• Amman

MOREK for Export & Import Co. is a Jordanian company based in the Al-Rajeeb area of Amman (Building 1, Al-Ayoubiyeen St.). On its website it presents itself as a leading Jordanian distributor of well-known brands, working in the distribution and marketing of branded food products and the distribution of premium local products. The company states that it was launched and established in 2020 following the success of its sister company, Ahmad Abu Dabour & Brothers Co. / Yasmeen Sweets, founded in 1999, which it describes as a pioneer in manufacturing oriental sweets, ma'amoul and muffin cake that supplies local and international markets to high quality standards. The company says it was set up with an experienced management team with long experience in sales, distribution and nationwide reach, and that its distribution covers 85% of the Kingdom's area with a fleet of equipped vehicles offering service at competitive prices; its website shows figures of more than 125 vehicles, more than 17,492 clients and more than 120 staff. It publishes coverage rates by region: Amman 98.3%, Zarqa 94.2%, Mafraq 97.6%, Irbid 93.2%, the Jordan Valley 99.4%, Karak 92.2%, Ruwaished 81% and Azraq 99.9%. It says customers are followed up through a modern system and regular visits by a qualified team to complete sales and distribution professionally, with after-sales service. In its Our Agencies section the company lists Alshaeb Roastery (nuts and roasted products), Sazon spices, Canary food products, the Fares Al-Natsheh Companies Group (Al-Fares), Let's Bake, Al Batal, Solymar fresh fruit jams and Lubek Bakery, and the agencies gallery also shows an Arizona logo. The company says it is the exclusive agent for products including Alshaeb Roasters nuts and Abzaro and the Fares Al-Natsheh group. Lubek Food Industries states on its own website that it produces biscuits, cakes, ma'amoul, wafers and nuts. The company says its main purpose is to serve and satisfy its customers and to follow up with them after providing the service, and that it aims to excel in distributing and marketing food brands within the Kingdom. The site names no quality certifications and no private labels of MOREK itself; the sweets and ma'amoul are products of its sister company Yasmeen Sweets.

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Jordan• Mahis

Arab United Food (AUF) says it has been committed since 2005 to importing quality food products for retail and food-service clients in Jordan, and that it is a member of the Gourmet Hub Group, combining global sourcing expertise with local market knowledge. It is based in Mahis, Municipality Street, Plaza complex near the Psychiatric Hospital, and its slogan is There's a U in everything we do. The company states that it delivers across Jordan to retail and food-service clients with a dedicated team and dry, chilled and frozen warehouses and trucks; its website cites 1,500 m2 of warehouses, 60,000 customers and operations in five countries. It says it sources from 25 countries through weekly air shipments and regular dry, chilled and frozen sea containers, represents more than 90 brands, and that its French company U-Group, founded in 1991, gives it access to the full range of products available at the Rungis market in Paris. The site groups its range into a Dairy Corner, Deli Selection, Seafood Selection, Everyday Groceries and Premium Meat. Its brands include Mutti Italian tomato products, St. Dalfour fruit spreads, Riso Gallo risotto rice, Colavita balsamic vinegar, Volys turkey cold cuts, the cheeses of Boursin, Ile de France, Latteria, Le Rustique, Saint Agur, Saint-André, Chavroux, Chaumes, Cambozola, Papillon, Etorki, Dodoni, Granarolo, Henri Willig, Rambol, Tartare and Soresina, Manchego from Alimentias, Brema filled pasta, Koukakis yogurt, Maldon salt, Urbani truffles, Al Taghziah basterma and Thomas Foods meat. The company says its mission is to introduce quality food products and inspire new ways of enjoying them, that it keeps expanding its range and investing in marketing, and that it aims to grow its presence across Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait. The group also includes U-FOOD, Benina Qatar, Benina Kuwait and U-Group, and the company states that it is certified under ISO 9001:2015 for total quality management.

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Jordan• Amman

Almasayel for Marketing presents itself as a company specialised in importing and distributing high-quality raw materials for the confectionery, bakery, restaurant and café sectors, based in Amman. The company says it has over 10 years of experience in import, export and distribution that have made it a trusted partner for many businesses and factories locally and internationally, and that since its establishment it has built a strong supply network with leading international manufacturers. The company says it runs a distribution system that ensures fast delivery and continuous product availability to clients across different regions, supplies factories producing confectionery, chocolate, ice cream, donuts and juices in commercial quantities, and offers wholesale pricing to confectionery supply stores, traders and distributors. It lists among its customers the confectionery and bakery sectors, hotels and restaurants, factories, sweets supply stores, coffee houses, small home-based businesses and juice factories and shops. The company presents three international brands, which it says come from Europe and Egypt: Dely Doux couverture chocolate — dark at 55%, 60% and 70% and milk at 35% and 38% — plus sugar-free and vegan chocolate, cocoa butter and cocoa mass; Kluger Chef fruit fillings with 50% and 70% fruit, caramel fillings, pistachio, hazelnut, Rocher, Bueno and speculoos spreads, biscuit and speculoos crumbs and French wafer flakes; and Juhayna whipping cream with 33% fat, cooking cream with 27% fat, vegan whipping cream and white chocolate. The company describes its services as import and export, fast local distribution, integrated solutions for bakeries and confectionery shops, product consultation to find the best balance of quality and cost, and long-term partnerships. Its stated vision is to become the leading company in the food ingredients sector in the region.

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Jordan• Amman

RITCO – IDEAL is a shared trade name for two Jordanian companies based in Al Raqeem, Amman: RITCO (Jordan Refrigeration Industry & Trading Co., described on its quality page as the Jordanian Company for Trade, Industry and Refrigeration) and Ideal Marketing Co. (IDEAL). The company says RITCO started in 1971 as a small family business whose core activity was supplying corner grocers and small retail outlets, and grew rapidly to employ more than 280 people with extensive warehousing and office space in Amman. Out of a focus on specialisation it set up a company dedicated to selling to the hotel, restaurant and café sector under the name IDEAL, which began serving HORECA in 2020 and then expanded to cover all sales departments. The company says it provides complete distribution solutions covering dry, chilled, frozen and non-food products, now represents more than 17 agencies, and covers all trade channels and sub-channels, from modern and traditional trade to hotels, restaurants and cafés. It states that its brands are available in leading supermarkets and mini-markets in all governorates of the Kingdom. Food brands shown on its website include McCain french fries, Sunbulah crispy fries, Italian Agriform cheese, Daily Dairy cheeses including classic Dutch Amanti cheese, VIV butter of Dutch origin, Tiptree reduced-sugar jams, Luna tomato paste, Sary honey, Boiron frozen fruit purées, Punjabi Al Muhaidib rice and Tea Break tea (karak, sada, adeni and masala). Its brands page also shows Mayar, Doubleban, Wazzup Dog, Uncle Choco, Al Bayt Al Arabi, SMEDS International (Groupe Lactalis) and Smilla Food. The company says it holds ISO 9001:2015, HACCP, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications, and lists the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's Golden Merchant programme under "Certified Quality". Its vision is to become the leading distribution company through excellence in service, innovation and sustainability; its motto is to provide "More Food to More People, More Often", and its values are service, teamwork, integrity, respect and results.

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Saudi Arabia• Riyadh

Madina Foods Trading Co. is a Saudi company that started out from its head office in Riyadh and says it has grown into one of the largest private food companies importing and trading foodstuffs in Saudi Arabia, referring to a history of more than fifty years. Its head office is in Alzain Tower on Salahudin Alayyobi Street in Riyadh's Malaz district. The company says it transports and distributes food products to all markets in the Kingdom through a large fleet of equipped vehicles and an experienced sales team, and that its main business is concentrated in the Central, Eastern and Western regions, followed by the other regions. Besides the head office it has branches in Dammam (Al-Khalidiyah Al-Oula) and Jeddah (Al-Sharafiyah), and states that its mission is to procure high-quality foodstuffs for the food-service industry, wholesalers and retailers. The catalogue on its website shows about 150 items across juices and syrups (jallab, blackberry, strawberry, pomegranate, rose and qamar al-din syrups, rose and blossom water, apple vinegar and Jilmar lemon juice), jams, halawa tahinia, hair halawa and tahini, dairy (kashkaval, feta, akkawi, shelal and halloumi cheeses and cream), molasses (pomegranate, grape and carob), virgin olive oil, Spanish green and black olives, pickles, sauces (ketchup, hot sauce, mayonnaise and ranch dressing), spices and thyme mixes, seeds and chickpeas, plus canned tuna, corn, mushrooms, pineapple and qamar al-din. The company says it markets and distributes well-known brands alongside its own brands, and that it deals with major suppliers in Europe, America and the Arab Mediterranean countries. Brands appearing in its catalogue include Moonaty, Darna, Delta, Lorena, Farmland, Sedon, Jilmar and Savor Life; the website does not say which of these are the company's own labels. It states that its vision is to become a benchmark leader in foodstuff trading in line with Saudi Vision 2030.

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Saudi Arabia• Riyadh

Food Sources (Food Sources Trading Co.) is a Saudi family-owned company headquartered in Riyadh. It states that it was founded in Riyadh in 2015 with a vision of bringing authentic Mediterranean flavours to the Kingdom, and that it specialises in supplying fresh food and deli items to key accounts, restaurants, catering companies and grocery stores across Saudi Arabia. Its stated mission is to provide high-quality products at competitive prices to hotels, restaurants and food refrigeration outlets. According to its published timeline, the company added cheeses and pickles to its olive range in 2017, opened a Jeddah distribution centre in 2019 as its second facility to serve the Western region, passed 200 hotel and restaurant partners in 2021, launched an online ordering portal in 2023, and says it now serves more than 500 establishments across the Kingdom. Its contact page lists locations in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Tabuk, Medina, Khamis Mushait and Qassim, and the company cites temperature-controlled warehousing and a last-mile fleet that maintain the cold chain, a named account manager for every client, flexible order quantities and a maximum delivery time of 48 hours. The company states that it sources directly from Greece, Turkey and Morocco, and that its range covers olives, cheeses, dairy, pickles, labneh and jams, with more than 600 products. Its brand partners shown on the site are: Eltaieb, an Egyptian dairy maker whose listed products include feta, white cheese, double-cream cheese, cottage cheese, natural cream and Labneh Altayib; Laziza, Eltaieb's value label; Joud, a Saudi olives, pickles and jam brand whose listed items include Greek Kalamata olives, whole green Picholine olives, mixed pickles, stuffed eggplants and strawberry, apricot, fig and berry jams; Muratbey, a Turkish cheese brand; Wexford Creamery from Ireland; and the Saudi brand Sahtain. The company states that all its products are SFDA-approved and Halal-certified, that its documentation team handles import clearance, and that its sourcing team visits suppliers to verify quality standards. It also presents activities in marketing, distribution and logistics, catering, wellness products, refrigeration solutions, restaurant-chain supply and support for food manufacturers.

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Saudi Arabia• Jeddah

Halwani Brothers Company — A prestigious Saudi brand established in 1950 in Jeddah. It is a leader in the production of tahini, halawa, pastries, jams, and processed meat products. The company is listed on the Saudi financial market (Tadawul: 6001) and exports to Gulf markets and the Arab world.

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Yamal Alsham is a Syrian food manufacturer in the Damascus countryside. The company says its roots go back to 1950 on a farm in the Ghouta of Damascus, while its website also states that the Yamal Alsham brand was founded in 2015 with a vision of sharing Syrian flavours with the world. It says it has upgraded its production with modern technology and applies strict sterilisation stages for its jarred and canned products. The range covers jams (whole strawberry and whole fig, plus apricot, rose, blueberry, cherry and pumpkin in 430 g and 800 g jars), makdous with walnuts, grape leaves and stuffed grape leaves (yalanji), grilled green olives and green olives stuffed with pepper, lemon or carrot, pickles (cucumber, Armenian cucumber, pepper), mushrooms, artichokes and sweet corn, extra virgin olive oil, tomato paste, ketchup and chili sauces, pomegranate molasses, grape verjuice and vinegars (apple, balsamic, date, white), rose water and orange blossom water, tahini and pistachio halva, sesame bread sticks (ka'ak), and jallab, tamarind, rose and blueberry drinks. The company states that its products have reached most countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe and America, and that it offers delivery across all Syrian governorates as well as regional and international shipping with export packaging. It exhibited at Gulfood 2026 in Dubai.

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Tala is the brand of Omar & Mouhja Karkour Food Processing Co., which was established under Investment Law No. 10 of 1991 and started production in May 1994 with a capital of 77.5 million Syrian pounds. Its complex lies in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya at the Al-Bardeh junction, 6 km south of Damascus, on a 10,000 m² site with production halls, cold stores, warehouses and administration. The company produces tomato paste in 22–24%, 24–26% and 28–30% concentrations and ketchup; canned vegetables (green peas, peas and carrots, green beans, artichoke hearts, grape leaves, mixed vegetables) and ready dishes such as okra in tomato sauce and yalanji stuffed vine leaves; fruit compotes (apricot, cherry, peach, pear, fruit salad); jams (apricot, strawberry, cherry, fig, rose, bitter orange); mushrooms and truffles; hummus with tahini, eggplant mutabbal, foul medames, broad beans and chickpeas; pickles; plus green and black olives, pomegranate molasses, sweet corn, hot pepper paste, halawa and qamar al-din apricot paste, in cans and glass jars from 70 g to 5 kg. The company states that its lines are fully automated from washing and grading to cooking and canning, that quality control runs 24 hours a day with an incubation period and testing in its own laboratory, and that its jams contain more than 50% fruit with no added flavourings, colourings or preservatives. Its Gulfood 2026 exhibitor profile describes it as a closed joint-stock company with over thirty years of experience that also makes apple cider vinegar, rose water and natural concentrated juices, and manufactures and packs customer orders in various sizes.

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Al Durra says its roots go back to the 1940s with a single product, qamar al-din apricot paste, and that it was established as a food manufacturer in 1979, when Durra was registered as a global trademark. The company opened its Syrian factory in 1985 (Hazeh, Rif Dimashq), a Jordanian plant in 2003 (Al-Hassan Industrial Estate, Irbid) and its first Egyptian plant in 2011 (10th of Ramadan City); its head office is in Amman, and it states that it runs 10 factories in 3 countries. The range covers canned foods (hummus with tahini, eggplant dip, foul medames in Syrian, Lebanese, Sudanese, Alexandrian and chili styles, cooked chickpeas, broad beans, stuffed grape leaves with rice, makdous), jams and fruit spreads (orange, black mulberry, fig, fig with walnut, strawberry, from 430 g up to 15 kg) and halva, pickles (cucumber, eggplant, Iraqi Najaf mixed pickles, amba, mixed pickles), double-concentrated tomato paste, ketchup and crushed hot pepper, spice and seasoning mixes, red za'atar and semolina, tamarind, jallab and pomegranate syrups, and imported lines such as tuna, sardines, sweet corn and peas. The company states that its products reach more than 85 countries on 5 continents and over 500,000 stores, and that it farms over 90% of its produce. It names Europe, Canada, Australia, the United States and the Arab countries as its main markets, and publishes ISO 9001, ISO 22000 (TÜV Austria) and Halal certificates for its Jordanian plant.

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Alarjawi is a Damascus brand whose story began in 1914 in the Al-Buzuriyah souq, founded by Hamdi Hamza Alarjawi; the family has kept its traditional recipes for more than a century. According to the company, the third generation modernised production in the 1990s and introduced new blends, including its signature red za'atar with natural pomegranate molasses. It runs a shop in the Midhat Pasha souq in Al-Buzuriyah, a distribution company in Aqraba and a factory on the Airport Road (Hteitet al-Turkman). Its range covers za'atar blends (green, royal, red, red with chili, royal mix with pepper, and with onion and tomato), spices (seven spices, fine black pepper, curry, caraway, shish spices), ready seasoning mixes (shawarma, shish tawook, kabsa, mandi, biryani, tandoori, broasted, crispy chicken, escalope, grills, fish and fish fillet), plus natural pomegranate molasses and tamarind, extra virgin olive oil, dried molokhia, kishk and freekeh. The company says it selects the finest natural ingredients and applies strict quality and food-safety controls from raw material to finished product while keeping its secret recipes, and that Alarjawi za'atar is a trusted brand in local and regional markets. Its Gulfood 2026 exhibitor profile states that it delivers its products from Damascus to markets around the world.